Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger, Printz Honor Book, is about how John comes to terms with his life, falls in love and figures out who he is.John decides to write a zine. (For you uncool people - a zine is a homemade magazine). He loves to write and admires some of the other zine writers. He meets Marisol when he waits for her to drop off her latest edition at a Tower Records.
Marisol writes "Escape Velocity." She is a lesbian Puerto Rican Cuban Yankee who lives in Cambridge. John thinks she is the coolest person ever, and knowing she is a lesbian, falls in love with her anyway.
Through a rough friendship, John learns a lot about himself and begins to let himself feel emotions again - something he has no allowed since his parents divorce six years earlier.
Wittlinger's title is from the song Hard Love by folk singer Bob Franke.
Wittlinger, Ellen. (1999). Hard Love. New York: Aladdin.
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